At B&N Reads
Jeff Somers tagged 21 novels based on or inspired by Shakespeare, including:
The Dead Father’s Club, by Matt Haig
Inspired by: Hamlet. Haig chooses a different route from most authors re-working Shakespeare, in that his story, though modernized, is pretty faithful to the original: the ghost of Phillip’s father visits the young man and implores him to murder his brother to prevent him from marrying Phillip’s mother and taking over the family business. Phillip pursues this goal, but slowly comes to doubt whether his father is right, while the reader begins to doubt Phillip’s grasp on reality.
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the other entries on the list.
The Page 69 Test: The Dead Fathers Club.
My Book, The Movie: The Dead Fathers Club.
--Marshal Zeringue
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